The MARBLE-V1 media processor is the industry's most flexible solution to video over IP. Crystal Vision's IP products are software apps which run on MARBLE-V1 hardware, with apps that are bought with the hardware able to be replaced with different apps as needs change – helping broadcast engineers to make the most of their budgets.

Crystal Vision has significantly reduced the price of its Safire 3 chroma keyer, making it now the lowest cost of the industry's best real-time chroma keyers and with the price drop bringing benefits to both large and small broadcasters.

On Booth N2516 at the 2018 NAB Show Crystal Vision will be showing its flexible IP platform, the MARBLE-V1 media processor hardware and the initial six software apps which run on it. These apps are IP gateways between SDI and SMPTE 2022 or 2110, and IP to IP translators for making adjustments to IP flows – including protocol conversion between ST 2022 and ST 2110. Designed for smaller projects and ideal for housing MARBLE-V1, the new Vision 1 1U frame brings further flexibility to the Vision frame system and incorporates the usual Vision benefits including numerous signal outputs. Crystal Vision will also be showing the keyers, video delays and fail-safe routing switches from its well-established Indigo frame system, including the acclaimed Safire 3 real-time chroma keyer which in addition to gaining new features has been significantly reduced in price – opening up its high quality chroma keying to systems that previously had to rely on the chroma keyer in their mixers.

Crystal Vision will be co-exhibiting with its distributor Ariston FZC on stand Z5-116 at CABSAT 2018 to show the new control features of the Safire 3 real-time chroma keyer. At its best, and Crystal Vision's most popular product in the Middle East, the Safire 3 has been upgraded with improved live operation from the VisionPanel control panel making it even easier to use. Crystal Vision also brings a unique approach to the IP world with its MARBLE-V1 media processor and software apps, giving the flexibility needed to react to the changing requirements of IP.

Crystal Vision has further improved the operation of its Safire 3 real-time chroma keyer in a live situation following significant changes to the VisionPanel universal control panel. VisionPanel is designed to operate up to 16 Crystal Vision Indigo or Vision frames, with its physical controls making it well suited to those products that need regular adjustment, such as Safire 3. As broadcasters search for increased efficiency, the VisionPanel enhancements all result in faster and easier operation, with various improvements made to the 3U Ethernet control panel's touch screen, knobs and hard buttons following consultation with expert users who operate chroma keyers on a daily basis.

CRYSTAL VISIONS NEW FRAME SYSTEM AND FUTURE-PROOF IP GATEWAYS AT THE 2017 NAB SHOW (BOOTH N3010)

Posted: 09/02/2017

Booth N3010 at the 2017 NAB Show will be showing Crystal Vision's forward-looking Vision frame system suitable for SDI, IP and 4K which is now shipping, along with its core interface cards including up and down converters, synchronisers, fibre optic transmitters and receivers, audio embedders/de-embedders and distribution amplifiers for analogue and digital video and audio. Crystal Vision will be discussing its future-proof IP gateways: initially supporting the SMPTE 2022-6 and SMPTE 2022-7 protocols and including PTP as a timing source option, they can be easily reconfigured via a software upgrade for the new standards as they emerge. Crystal Vision will also be showing its well-established Indigo frame system with its popular chroma keyers, logo keyers, video delays and fail-safe routing switches.

CRYSTAL VISION IS GETTING READY FOR THE FUTURE OF THE BROADCAST INDUSTRY AT CABSAT 2017

Posted: 17/01/2017

Crystal Vision will be on stand B2-56 at CABSAT 2017 to show how it is getting ready for the future of the broadcast industry with its exciting new Vision 3 frame system which is now shipping. It has core cards of up and down converters, synchronisers, fibre optic transmitters and receivers, audio embedders/de-embedders and distribution amplifiers for analogue and digital video and audio. Crystal Vision also has its proven Indigo range with the choice of three different frame sizes and 75 cards to include its Safire 3 chroma keyer which is very popular with its Middle Eastern customers.

Crystal Vision provided a large number of modular boards, including three of its industry-leading Safire 3 chroma keyers, as part of a major upgrade to Studio B at the home of BBC Northern Ireland in Belfast. The contract was with systems integrator Dega Broadcast Systems which carried out the upgrade.

Crystal Vision's latest chroma keyer fills an important gap in the market: a product that provides affordable high quality real-time chroma keying. Safire 3 Xpress is ideal for weather, news bureaus and other single static camera 3Gb/s, HD or SD applications that use simple backgrounds rather than a full virtual set and require high quality chroma keying combined with straightforward control. Useful features such as input frame synchronisers and lighting compensation mean that Safire 3 Xpress will always outperform a studio mixer.

Crystal Vision provided a large number of additional interface cards, up and down converters and keyers to convert BBC Studios and Post Production (BBC S&PP) Studio D at Elstree to a communications hub and augmented reality studio. This formed the centrepiece of the BBCs coverage of the UK General Election in May 2015.

Crystal Vision will be bringing its latest real-time chroma keyer to South East Asia for the first time when it shows Safire 3 Xpress a modular product providing affordable high quality chroma keying on Stand 5E2-09 at BroadcastAsia 2015. With its top-end chroma keyer Safire 3 also on show in Singapore, Crystal Vision can now offer customers a suitable chroma keyer for all applications and budgets from news and weather to full virtual environments. Other products making their debut in this part of the world include the LKEY-SQZ squeeze back keyer designed for any applications where a programme needs to be resized or repositioned for another layer of video to be displayed, and Crystal Vision's instinctive new control system which offers the choice of board operation via web browser (VisionWeb) or hardware panel (VisionPanel).

Visitors attending the 2015 NAB Show will find Crystal Visions latest keying, interface and control products on Booth N3825, in their US exhibition debut. Held between April 13th and 16th 2015, the NAB Show is based at the LVCC (Las Vegas Convention Center) in Las Vegas. The latest products making their US exhibition debut including the brand new Safire 3 Xpress a new real-time chroma keyer that shares the processing quality of the full Safire 3, but has a simpler features set for easy control. Plus Crystal Visions award-winning LKEY-SQZ, a unique keying solution providing an exceptionally smooth squeeze back functionality, a choice of two new control options to satisfy all preferences VisionWeb web browser and the VisionPanel hardware control panel and two new distribution amplifiers for MADI audio the MADDA105 and MADDA111.

CABSAT 2015 in Dubai will see Crystal Vision showing three different keying solutions products that are traditionally most popular with customers in the Middle East. During the exhibition, which runs 10th 12th March 2015, some of the products on stand D3-46 will include the Safire 3 chroma keyer which now comes with a full set of control options, MultiLogo logo keyer with new audio features and the award-winning LKEY-SQZ squeeze back keyer in its Middle Eastern exhibition debut.

Crystal Vision was selected by UK systems integrator, Dega Broadcast Systems, to supply 421 interface boards for use at BBC Millbank in London, UK for its parliamentary broadcasts. The order was made up of distribution amplifiers, up and down converters, synchronisers, fibre optic receivers and transmitters, linear and chroma keyers, video delays, embedders/de-embedders and routing switches.

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